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Robert S. McIntyre

Making the rich pay the same tax rates on their investment earnings that the rest of us pay on our earnings would be a good start [towards tax reform].

Even on Medieval days in Europe, the wealthy barons paid lower tax rates that their lowest peasants. Relief from taxes was one of the privileges of the very rich. The practice has been made more cosmetic, but the result seems to have been the same into the 21st century.

Robert S. McIntyre

The question is not whether the nation should reduce current consumption. It should. The question is, Whose consumption should be reduced?

Robert S. McIntyre

Why not close loopholes that allow corporations like General Electric and Boeing to go years without paying practically anything in corporate income taxes.

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Robert S. McIntyre is Director of Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), a nonpartisan research and advocacy group that fights for tax fairness—at the federal, state, and local levels. He has been a professional corporate lobbyist and a political lobbyist/strategist on the side of the Democrats and was a member of the tobacco industry's Labor Management Committee (LMC) which provided lobbying services for the Tobacco Institute.

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